reluctancia

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Portuguese

Noun

reluctancia f (plural reluctancias)

  1. Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of relutância.
    • 1914, David Lloyd George, A Guerra Europea, Harrison and Sons, page 2:
      Não ha homem que com maior reluctancia e maior repugnancia tenha encarado como eu [] a perspectiva de se ver envolvido em uma grande guerra.
      There is no man in this room who has always regarded the prospect of engaging in a great war with greater reluctance and with greater repugnance that I have done .

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Spain) /reluɡˈtanθja/
  • IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /reluɡˈtansja/
  • Rhymes: -anθja
  • Rhymes: -ansja
  • Syllabification: re‧luc‧tan‧cia

Noun

reluctancia f (plural reluctancias)

  1. reluctance, unwillingness
  2. (physics) reluctance

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